Wire the shared code mailbox-overflow detector into the VF lifecycle and virtchnl dispatcher. E830 controllers use their per-VF hardware in-flight-message watermark. On older controllers, attribute a congested mailbox snapshot to its sender and isolate the offending VF so that it cannot continue to fill the shared queue. A physical VFLR, PF reset, or IOV recreation releases it. Process at most one initially full mailbox immediately. If producers keep it nonempty, leave its interrupt masked and let the periodic admin timer schedule bounded drain work. This prevents sustained mailbox traffic from monopolizing the iflib admin task. Report software isolation and cumulative overflow events in the driver.ice VF status extension, document both protection models, and add failure-injection points for the isolation and scheduling paths. On an E810-XXV with two host-attached iavf VFs, injected overflow on VF 0 disabled only that VF while VF 1 completed 60 of 60 pings. A physical VFLR and a PF reset each released VF 0; IOV recreation also reset its cumulative count. Forced persistent mailbox-pending state produced 20 admin and control-queue passes in five seconds, remained timer-paced, and did not interrupt sibling traffic. MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: BBOX.io
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Intel Networking Restricted Owners Package (Owns No Changed Paths)
Needs E830 testing
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